Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Monday Morning Box Office Update!

According to FINAL weekend box office numbers, "Clerks II" did a little better than the Sunday estimate of $9,625,000 for the weekend. The ACTUAL figure, according to the Weinstein Co. this morning, is $10,061,132.

Still doesn’t move us up the list any (we’re still ..6), but we DID hit double digits, and were only a million off from our "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" opening weekend of $11mil. We spent $15mil less making "Clerks II", and we spent way less marketing this movie. Add to that the fact that we were in profit before we opened, thanks to foreign sales, and you have the reason why both Harvey and Bob Weinstein called me this weekend to say "We’re happy. Now let’s keep moving in the right direction."

In other news, our exit polls have been strong, and our tracking is still good. We’ll see what the weekday numbers look like, and hopefully, the drop next weekend won’t be too steep.

Final figures should be up at Box Office Mojo later today.

Kevin Smith’s MySpace 

I found that really interesting and had to share! 

DON’T joke about women, donkeys and bestiality if you expect Joel Siegel to watch your movie. That’s what director Kevin Smith found out when the pun-loving "Good Morning America" film critic stormed out of a press screening of Smith’s "Clerks II," which opens Friday – an act that’s sparked a vicious war of words between the two. "Time to go!" roared Siegel to his fellow critics. "First movie I’ve walked out of in 30 [bleeping] years!" His tirade came 40 minutes into the long-awaited Weinstein Company sequel to Smith’s 1994 cult classic about two foul-mouthed Long Island convenience store clerks who razz customers and goof off. In the scene that sent Siegel to the exit, the characters graphically discuss hiring a woman to perform sexual favors on a donkey. Siegel told Page Six: "It was so foul and mean and repulsive. I finally realized I could not say anything positive . . . I wasn’t ready for this kind of smut . . . I hope he doesn’t make any more movies."An apoplectic Smith fired back on his MySpace blog: "Getting a bad review from Siegel is like a badge of honor. This is the guy who stole his mustachioed-critic shtick from Gene Shalit years ago, and still refuses to give it back. This is a guy who seemingly prides himself on his own nyuk-nyuk wordplay. For ‘Pirates 2,’ he made us all titter with ‘Yo, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Fun’ . . . He made us squeal with delight when he wrote, ‘Wheelie Good Time for "Cars." ‘ I mean, Fozzy [bleeping] Bear laughs at this guy."And there’s more: "I don’t need Joel Siegel to [bleep] my [bleep] the way he apparently [bleeps] M. Night Shyamalan’s, gushing over his flick [’The Lady in the Water’] before he’s even seen it, but [bleep] man, man – how about a little common [bleeping] courtesy? You never, never disrupt a movie, simply because you don’t like it. Cardinal rule of moviegoing: Shut your [bleeping] mouth while the movie’s playing."I don’t come down to your job and slap the taste out of your mouth for coming up with a line like, ‘ "Shark Tale" Is a Halibut Good Time’ – so don’t [bleep] with my stuff while it’s still screening . . . What are you, a 12-year-old boy cutting loose with your pals at a Friday night screening of ‘Scary Movie’ 4′ while your parents are in a theater down the hall watching ‘The Devil Wears Prada’? Leave the diva-like behavior and drama-queen antics to the movie stars, not the movie reviewer, ya’ rude-ass [bleep]."

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Seriously has he never seen a Kevin Smith movie or know who and what Kevin Smith is? OMG and M Knight had one good movie the rest are long, drawn out, uneventful Twilight Zone episodes.  

And BTW how the heck does Joel Siegel maintain that thing? 

Cult movie maker KEVIN SMITH has promised to revisit his JAY AND SILENT BOB franchise if the film’s star, JASON MEWES, stays away from drugs. Mewes, who pleaded guilty to possession of heroin and a hypodermic needle in 2001, has appeared in many of Smith’s films and the director admits the much-anticipated CLERKS sequel was inspired by his friend’s sobriety. Smith explains, "He was knee-deep in OxyContin and heroin, and I had told him if he ever cleaned up, I would put him in another movie. "When he was six months clean, he asked me if we would be doing another Jay And Silent Bob movie… I told him it was CLERKS II." Smith has now given Mewes another promise – to revisit Jay And Silent Bob if Mewes can stay sober for five years. He adds, "We can JAY AND SILENT BOB GO TO SPACE or some s**t."

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I was wondering why Smith filmed a sixth movie after saying the series was over after Jay and Silent Bob Strke Back, now I know. Or do I?

Film-maker KEVIN SMITH has blasted his friend BEN AFFLECK for failing to cast him in his directional debut GONE, BABY, GONE. Affleck is currently filming the mystery drama in his native Massachusetts and upset Smith when he didn’t ask him to cameo in the movie. Affleck has appeared in six Smith movies, including CHASING AMY, JERSEY GIRL and MALLRATS. Smith fumes, "I can’t believe I cast the motherf**ker in six movies and he didn’t have the f**king courtesy to be like, ‘Do you want to show up in Gone, Baby, Gone?’" Smith is currently in Boston promoting his new film CLERKS II and in unsure whether or not to visit Affleck on set. He explains, "When you’re on a movie set, unless you’ve got a job to do, you’re just in the way. I would like to see him in his directorial element and give him s**t. But I don’t want to distract him."

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